A literal fish-out-of-water tale about a lovely
mermaid who comes to Manhattan, looking for the man she saved from drowning.
When the two meet, a romance begins -- even as the ill-at-ease mermaid wreaks
havoc and attracts attention everywhere. But the unlikely duo's love is tested
when the mermaid must return to the sea, forcing her earthly boyfriend to make
an unusual decision.

Angus (Rufus Sewell) and Lillie (Carla Gugino)
run a traveling carnival. While traveling the Irish countryside, they give a
ride to an old sailor who in turn invites them into his castle to see his most
prized possession--a live mermaid kept in a tank (Rya Kihlstadt). Knowing they
can make a fortune off of the fabled half-fish, half-woman creature, Angus
steals her for his show and loads her on a boat to sail to America. Little does
he know, the mermaid masks a horror that will not show its face until he and his
crew are far from shore.

I wasn't too fond of this one. The
mermaid eats people. Not exactly a movie for kids to see.

The fifth and arguably best known of the
Avalon/Funicello surfing/beach series. Tells the story of a boy who falls in
love with a beautiful girl, only to find that she is actually a mermaid.
All-star ensemble cast makes for an amusing watch.

Ok, it is a beach movie, but the
mermaid story that runs through it is not too bad.

Danish author Hans
Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is renowned for his children's tales, yet
comparatively little is known of his extraordinary rise from poverty to
preeminence. Hallmark Entertainment presents the story behind the storyteller,
one as full of pathos as Andersen himself. In his film debut, Kieran Bew is
remarkable as Andersen, an impoverished child who, at age 15, runs away to
Copenhagen. Destitute, he's befriended by a wealthy benefactor, Jonas Collin
(James Fox), who offers him shelter, education, and, ultimately, an audience
with a publisher. As the biography unfolds, so does Andersen's brilliant
imagination. The film deftly weaves snippets of his fairy tales ("The Snow
Queen," "The Little Mermaid") into the real-life scenes of a man
whose rise to fame is tangled with the strains of success and a tendency to
believe his own fiction.

I thought they did a good job in this
film on the mermaids, but in this original story of "The Little
Mermaid " this mermaid doesn't have a happy ending. To be honest I wasn't fond of
how they portrayed Has Christian Andersen. I had to fast forward it to get to
the mermaid part, as for why, here is a review that someone gave on Amazon about it
and I agree with.

"This film is horribly
depressing. The main actor plays his character like a raving lunatic and , if he
acted this way in public, would have been locked up."